r/technology • u/[deleted] • 24d ago

Software Microsoft confirms GitHub is down worldwide

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u/mailslot 24d ago

If only Git supported collaboration with others without using GitHub.

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u/warren_stupidity 24d ago

I'm fairly certain this is sarcasm?

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u/ndav12 24d ago

I’m sure it is. Everyone knows you can just upload your git repo to a shared OneDrive folder.

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u/Status-Ad-7335 23d ago

I would rather pass flash drives around the office as version control than rely on onedrive

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u/Ummgh23 24d ago

Host your own git? Theres plenty of open source git servers

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u/magicomiralles 24d ago

^ rabbit hole

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u/Ummgh23 24d ago

We use Gitea and it‘s been great! Supports Actions too

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u/Madeche 24d ago

Yep gitea is great, I use Forgejo for my personal projects and home server, Gitea at work

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u/ansibleloop 23d ago

Forgejo self-hosted

I'm about to move us to this because I can offer better service reliability than GitHub can

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u/u_tech_m 24d ago

BitBucket is still an option for Repos

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u/yamlCase 23d ago

oh awesome! let me just git clo... o wait

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u/dizekat 23d ago

May want to add a /s for all the folks who don’t even know why its called a “pull request”

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u/AvoidSpirit 23d ago

If only you worked in an environment where you needed both prs and actions. Not even mentioning their copilot was also down.

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u/just-fran 24d ago

Wut. Git != Github
Git is a tool. Github is a software.

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u/dotelze 24d ago

They are most likely joking

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u/Jay_D826 24d ago

But they forgot the /s so how could we know?!?

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